Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-28
SOMEWHAT MIXED

SOMEWHAT MIXED.
Conflicting Reports Concerning tho his
.ress ia Kansas Ono Statements Says
Over Sixty Persons Have Perfased
Through Cold and Hunger, and tho
Other DeclHres the Stores Are Greatly
Exaggsrated-The Cold Wave in tho
South. g
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 23.-An the settled
districts Of Kansas have been aroused bys
the horrible details of death and suffesing
in the west to sense of the necessity for
immediate action in the direction of relief.
Additional information received character
ICES the bl zzard as one Of the worst in tho
annals OF the State and in its effects prob
ably the most fatal, the number of deaths
from combinat2 on of hunger and Geld be-
ing placed at sixty J. P. Hackney. ef Ash
land, Clark County, reached this city yes
terday, and gives the details OF the storms
work He says: 49, 'f<7}t%
when the blizzard struck us last Monday
the country people were almost entirely out OF
fuel what little they had being buffalo chips.
Sunday was an autumnai day, ana meme were
prepared for the storm that followed.
Reports OF deaths have been coming
In ever since. OF my own knowledge
can vouch for the following: John
Henry and John Golfer left Ashland hour
before the snow began to fall. Next day their
bodies were found some miles west Of town
and their team, which had drifted before the
storm, was found dead in harness
some twenty miles south. AS soon as the
most violent part Of the storm had passed we
organic I'd rescuing parties The party with
VIII Oh was in one sod shanty found an entire
family OF five, named Kannus, frozen stiff.
The mother was dead in bed, while two Chill.
dren had died on their stools. Not particle
OF fuel was visible. The bodies were taken to
Ashland and buried B. c. Purdy, who had been
out looking at q claim, was found dead
| within half mile Of the limits OF the town,
having evidently lost hiseyay in the binding
snow, as he was off the ghway. These and
| two Otte bodies had been found up to the time
OF my leaving yesterday. Ashland has been
turned into a hospital for the large number
| frozen though not fatally. Amputation had
been necessltated in several instancee.@
Residents here are receiving adv1ces from
fir ends in the west, giving equally horrible
details. Tie condition of the people of
Lane, Scott. Wichita and Greeley counties
| is terrible.
c. Rogers, banker of Mead Center, who
came in yesterday, says though he has heard
of no actual death from starvation he
knows the people of mis- county to be desti-
| tute of fuel, and that many of them have
| Mr.: Riley and two children were frozen to
death near Dighton. Lane County. while six
! deaths are reported from Greeley, nine from
! Wichita and three from Scott County The
! facts are slow to come in. many ef these
counties being 100 and $50 miles from tele-
! graph stations, but agents have been sent
| on horseback from most of these dis:r cts
! to the nearest point of communicated with
the outside world
| KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 23-The weather
! continues to moderate In this city and in
the Safe of Kansas Encouraging reports
are coming in from the West. which
90 far to remove the impression Of
extreme suffering in Kansas from
lack of food and fuel While there
have undoubtedly been isolated cases Of
| death from exposure and instances Of indi-
Y dual suffering from scarcity of provisions,
there is no doubt that the condition of at
ia rs has been greatly exaggerated
GARDEN CITY. Kan, Dec 23.-Represen-
| tat.ves of eleven counties of West and
Southwest Kansas report that in those
counties there has been no more suffering
from the cold snap than usually expe-
rienoed by people who are prov. ded against
! such emergencies by clothing, food and
fuel No de tbs have been reported from
cold, and people are well provided with
I food and fuel the coal famine having fene
! to an end about two weeks ago 4 local
| paper, which has correspondents in twelve
! counties, says that in the cou mites Of Scott,
Wichita, Hamilton, Kearney, Kinney, Has
kelI, Grant, Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Sew
ard, Gray and Garfield there has been NO
severe suffering from cold
ATcH1soN, Kan, Dec 23.-Tkere h no
! lack of fuel or food anywhere In Northeast
ern Kansas nor along the northern tier Of
counties
ABILENE, Kan, Dec. 23-Specia1s from
pc nts on the line of the Union Pacific and
points north of the road indicate NO trouble
| at all or no scarcity of food or fuel This
| may be said to include all of Northwestern
Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. Dec 23-The situation In
Western Kansas has greatly improved dur
ing the last twenty-four hours The
weather has moderated and the supply of
coal is being increased Twenty carloads
were shipped yesterday from the Atchison,
Topeka l. Santa Fe Company's mines in
Colorado, which will be distributed at once
at the towns most in need OF fuel
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. % - Freezing
weather prevailed here all day and the city
! is covered with a coat of ice The freezing
! line extends beyond the Rio Grande some
distance into Mexico
Dispatches to the signal officer here show
that very cold weather prevails throughout
tn great cattle districts OF Texas Reports
OF suffering by exposed cattle are being re-
ceived heavy sleet is falling
CHATHAM. Miss. Dec ga wild and
fierce Northwestern swept across the cape
yesterday afternoon and continues. with
mow-squalls and bitter SHOWS. There is
much anxiety in regard to shipping
LABOR IN THE SOUTH.
A Gloomy View Of the Situation Given BY
Prominent Knight Of Labor.
WASHINGTON, Dec 23-Thomas B. Barry,
of the Executive Board of Knights Of Labor,
who has been Oh = tour through the South,
says he was unfavorably impressed with
what he saw of tie social and political con-
dition of labor at the South School fa-
cilities he says are sadly lack
ing, and intimidation is rampant,
especially as to the free use of the cleo
tive franchise The tenant farmers ho
thinks, are in but little better condition
than the oppressed tenants Of Ireland At
all important places visited the fe Ing
against Knights of Lsbor was very high In
.a~>oo bind of EnElnv kluO ~.